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uponit7771

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Tue Nov 25, 2014, 05:17 AM Nov 2014

Young black men are 21 times more likely than their white counterparts to be killed by police,

http://www.propublica.org/article/deadly-force-in-black-and-white

Young black males in recent years were at a far greater risk of being shot dead by police than their white counterparts – 21 times greater i, according to a ProPublica analysis of federally collected data on fatal police shootings.

The 1,217 deadly police shootings from 2010 to 2012 captured in the federal data show that blacks, age 15 to 19, were killed at a rate of 31.17 per million, while just 1.47 per million white males in that age range died at the hands of police.


Small numbers relative to population are no justification for this stupid disparity...

NOT at all
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Young black men are 21 times more likely than their white counterparts to be killed by police, (Original Post) uponit7771 Nov 2014 OP
that is the relevant statistic- not all this stuff about black on black crime cali Nov 2014 #1
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